User Requirements¶

Cluster API Provider Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (CAPX) interacts with Nutanix Prism Central (PC) APIs using a Prism Central user account.

CAPX supports two types of PC users:

Local users: must be assigned the Prism Central Admin role.
Domain users: must be assigned a role that at least has the Minimum required CAPX permissions for domain users assigned.

See Credential Management for more information on how to pass the user credentials to CAPX.

Minimum required CAPX permissions for domain users¶

The following permissions are required for Prism Central domain users:

Note

The list of permissions has been validated on PC 7.3 and above.

When upgrading CAPX v1.7.x to v1.8.x, users must meet the following additional requirements:

The following permissions are required for Prism Central domain users: